Leonard H. Singer

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Couch White partner Alita Giuda is slated to participate on a panel at the Albany Law School’s Accepted Students Day Career Panel on Thursday, May 24, 2018. Ms. Giuda will discuss her career, and career path and how Albany Law School played a part of her journey.

In January Couch White attorneys Adam Schultz and Alita Giuda (assisted by Maddie Goralski and Katie Birchenough) filed a lawsuit challenging DEC’s new Part 360 regulations. The suit was brought on behalf of a number of aggregate producers, asphalt manufacturers and road builders who rely upon the (old 360) BUDs for these materials which allow … Read More

The United States Tax Court recently issued a ruling on “micro-captive” insurance companies regulated under Internal Revenue Code Section 831(b) setting forth several guideposts for businesses insured by such entities. Read the article.

In 2017 the construction industry added 210,000 jobs, a 35% increase over previous years. 30,000 of those jobs were added in December 2017 alone, with November 2017 having seen a record $1.257 trillion spent in the construction industry. This increase in job creation and spending, which can largely be attributed to current economic conditions, a … Read More

At the point when the State began insisting that MWBE goals on State construction projects and those funded by State grants be 30%, we wondered how that could be. The then most recent disparity study, which had been written into law in 2010 and has not been amended, indicated that such goals for construction work … Read More